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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison	XTDB formerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS	A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS	Score 0.18 Rank #332   Overall #46   Document stores
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html	github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb www.xtdb.com
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html	www.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Transaction Software GmbH	Juxt Ltd.
Initial release	2016	1993	1987	2019
Current release			Transbase 8.3, 2022	1.19, September 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial free development license	Open Source MIT License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++		C and C++	Clojure
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows	All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	yes	limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API	HTTP REST JDBC
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python	Clojure Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	yes	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none		none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	yes	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transbase	XTDB formerly named Crux
Recent citations in the news	Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities 10 November 2023, InfoQ.com provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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